Long experience with a web-based, interactive, conversational virtual patient case simulation for medical students' evaluation: comparison with oral examination.

Virtual patients (VP) have been advocated as reliable tools for teaching and evaluating clinical skills and competence. We have developed an internet-based, OSCE-like, conversational VP system designed both for training and assessment of medical students. The system, that encompasses complete patient management from H&P to diagnostic procedures and treatment, has now been used regularly during the clerkship of internal medicine.

Interdisciplinary Care and a Focus on Fertility Preservation When Multi-cystic Ovaries Cause Ovarian Torsion: A Case of a 9-year-old Girl with Severe, Undiagnosed Hypothyroidism.

Background: Ovarian torsion can occur in Van Wyk Grumbach syndrome, a disorder characterized by severe primary hypothyroidism and ovarian enlargement. To date, all documented cases of torsion in this setting describe oophorectomy, which has significant hormonal and fertility implications.

Case: A 9-year-old pubertal girl presented to the emergency room with abdominal pain.

Opioid Prescribing Patterns by Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents in the United States.

Background: Despite the opioid epidemic in the U.S., little data exist to guide postoperative opioid prescribing in Obstetrics & Gynecology (Ob/Gyn).

[Medical students' views on the use of virtual patients for teaching and assessment of clinical knowledge and reasoning].

Background: Computerized cLinical cases ["virtual patient" (VP)] provide a useful teaching and assessment tool for clinicaL knowledge and skiLLs. However, the attitude of medical students toward this new modality needs to be evaluated. We examined students' acceptance of a web-based VP system that was deveLoped in the Technion Faculty of Medicine for teaching and assessment purposes.